Laniece+Dorsey

**SUMMARY:** **Laniece Dorsey, age 17, died on February 6, 1986 after an abortion at a Family Planning Associates Medical Group clinic in Orange County, CA.**

Seventeen-year-old Laniece Dorsey underwent a safe and legal abortion at a @Family Planning Associates Medical Group facility in Orange County, California, on February 6, 1986. FPA is a National Abortion Federation member facility.

Laniece lapsed into a coma, was transferred to a nearby hospital, and died later that day.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department medical examiner blamed the death on cardiorespiratory arrest due to the [|anesthesia], although he also found "a thick adherent layer of fibrinous material containing moderate numbers of inflammatory infiltrates" in Laniece's uterus.

Laniece wasn't the first or last young woman to die from abortion at a facility owned by FPA head honcho Edward Campbell Allred. Other patients known to have died after abortion at Allred's facilities include
 * Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970
 * Patricia Chacon, age 16, 1984
 * Mary Pena, age 43, 1984
 * Josefina Garcia, age 37, 1985
 * Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988
 * Tami Suematsu, age 19, 1988
 * Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992
 * Susan Levy, age 30, 1992
 * Christina Mora, age 18, 1994
 * Ta Tanisha Wesson, age 24, 1995
 * Nakia Jorden, 1998
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maria Leho, 1999
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kimberly Neil, 2000
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maria Rodriguez, age 22, 2000
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chanelle Bryant, age 22, 2004

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Allred's facilities remain members of the National Abortion Federation despite these deaths.



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Case No. 86-0682-AK
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Orange County Superior Court Case No. 51-04-15

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